Got off public transportation after crossing the Panamanian border, leaving Costa Rica. Said “adios” to the beach and made my way to Chiriqui, Panama. Walking onto the soil of what month nine of the race will look like.
Remember the last blog I wrote? Life was good & the living was easy. I didn’t even feel like I was on the race.
Reality struck when I made it to Panama. Not in a bad way, just not in the ways I thought it should look like. Lol that I still get surprised when things don’t mirror my expectations.
The first week into Panama was lonely. Not lonely between my team, but coming from a ministry that intentionally poured into us, to one that did not connect with us, was unfamiliar and just weird. We didn’t have as much freedom as we previously did. Some of us felt heaviness on the property we were living at and we didn’t know how to put words to the shift in perspective and attitude from last month to this one. My team came together, we spoke life over it and decided together we weren’t going to let this affect our time here.
The next day a new team came onto the property for a short term mission for the next week and a half. They rejuivated our spirits and brought such refreshment. It was super amazing. We didn’t feel in a slump anymore, we felt revitalized and excited about our time.
I took a step back though. I believe in Christ and I love Him, I love Him like a whole lot. So why was I so quick to fall into a slump the second my circumstances changed? I am told I carry the joy of the Lord. If He is omnipresent, my joy shouldn’t change.
Now I am not saying that it is not okay not to be okay, but I am saying it is not okay to continue to choose to be not okay. Rather give whatever I am and have over to the Father so He can pour His joy into it.
Purpose
What is purpose?
“the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.”
So what is our purpose in Christ? He has placed us here on Earth, for a purpose. He has given us life, truth, promises. He has given us so much. So why is it so easy to get caught up in what our view, our perspective may seem to be?
I don’t want to live a life defined by my circumstances, but defined by the Joy of the Lord.
How?
Let’s be people who breathe in Christ, who are so confident in who HE says we are, people who recognize the Father’s voice. Let’s do this so when we enter a time of turmoil, when we are in the seasons of despair, we turn to the joy that we possess.
We don’t choose despair. We don’t choose stress. We don’t choose hurt. We don’t choose anxiety.
Rather, we bring it as an opportunity to look into ourselves, our souls, our relationship with the Father. We take the responsibility of identifying why we feel x,y,z. We become grateful for the opportunity to shine the Father’s light in what seems to be darkness, simply because we possess and own the joy of the Lord. We become people who speak truth, simply because we are given it. We speak light. We are people who choose to free ourselves in Jesus’s name and who decide to free others. Let’s become grateful for moments and seasons because they gift us the opportunity to choose to sulk or stand up and glorify the One who placed us there and why.
Christ saved me. Christ lives inside of me.
It doesn’t stop there though, honestly how could it.
Reread that sentence^.
The one who overcame death lives inside me, in commune with my spirit.
How on earth would we as children of God be called to the mundane?
“If His voice can create the Heavens and the Earth, it can reshape my world”
“The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right path for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely Your goodness and Your love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” amen.
-Psalm 23
We have the honor of claiming Christ. We have the responsibility when we claim Christ. The responsibility to partner with our maker and bring His kingdom to earth. Heaven to Earth. Let’s get to know Him. Let’s surrender.
When we become in relation with the Father, getting to know Him is the joy of our heart. There will never be a moment where you aren’t discovering His goodness in a new way. Let’s be a people who learn to recognize who God is and who He says we are. Let’s grasp the fullness of the life He so willingly hands to us.
Supernatural life is all throughout the Bible.
It’s in Jesus’s life, it’s in the disciples, so why isn’t it flooding throughout ours if we are who He came to save?
Jesus.
Jesus lived a supernatural life because he was constantly intune with what the Father had for Him. He knew His father’s voice. He ran to the Father for life changing moments. He ran to the Father for ‘small’ miracles. He was so intune with what the Father had for Him that He lived a sinless, miraculous, supernatural life.
Did these miracles stop when Jesus left? Absolutely not. Check out the chapter of Acts.
Jesus promised Holy Spirit.
We are powerful because we have Holy Spirit. We have access to the same exact power that raised Christ from the dead. We have access to the supernatural because He gifted it. He gifted it, so that we may live a life of expectancy and close relationship. That we may bring Heaven to Earth.
The whole reason Jesus Christ came to Earth was to reveal to us the nature of the Father. To bridge humanity to God. To teach us how to be close to the creator of creation.
“Over 165 times in the Gospels Jesus uses the term Father to describe God, more than triple any other term used to describe God, He used Father. Over 100 times in the gospel of John He uses the term Father. Why? Because Father is the very essence of His nature. There is no greater revelation than knowing God as Father.”
-R.A. Martinez
A life close with the Father. A life of miracles. A life of fullness desired.
What are we doing if we live day to day? What are we doing waiting for tomorrow? Waiting for tomorrow when in reality we aren’t even promised tomorrow. Not even promised a following breath to the one we are currently breathing.
You are gifted every moment. Breathe out the lie of the enemy that your purpose will come later, it’s here right now. Tomorrow isn’t the day, right now is. Cast out the lie that you should wait till you are ‘fully’ worthy to do what is it He has placed on your heart. The cross made you worthy.
I am so passionate about living in the now and silencing the enemy instead of being silenced, because I am tired. I am tired of believing lies of myself, and I am tired seeing those I love believe false truths and live in them.
Grab hold of this moment in Jesus’s name. Allow yourself to be freed by speaking out lies in Jesus’s name. If you don’t even know how to identify the lies, ask Him. Invite Him in, introduce yourself to the Holy Spirit. Claim a life of the supernatural carried by the joy of the Lord.
I don’t want to fall victim to my circumstance. I want to choose victory over my circumstance because I am entitled to it. I want to rise up and live a life that is supernatural. Taking full advantage of the cross, of the Holy Spirit, so I can be the daughter who lives the life Yaweh promised me. Let’s get to Heaven exhausted from running so hard after His Kingdom. Let’s break the stigma of striving for tomorrow to be comfortable. Our eternal home isn’t earth, so why are we living a life designing it to be? Let’s take the blinders of society off and press into the fullness of this life we are gifted.
Amen.
Thank you for following my tangent and supporting my journey. I would love to know how to pray and support you. If you have questions about this blog or prayer requests I can partner with you in, please reach out!!!
